Corset-clasp



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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIca:

JOSEPH DAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH -KOON,

, OF SAME PLACE:

CORSET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,193, dated March27, 1888. Application filed January 16, 1888. Serial No. 260,868. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn DAY, of New Haven, in the county of New Havenand State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCorset-Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which [0 said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figures 1 and 2, front views of the two busks,

detached; Fig. 3, a front view of the corset in the clasped position;Fig. 4, aperspective view of the two busks in the operation of clasping;

Fig. 5, a modification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the clasping device forcorsets.

In the usual construction of busks they are provided the one withstuds'and the other with loops or eyes riveted or otherwise secured tothe busk and adapted to engage with the studs on the other busk tosecure the corset upon the person.

The object of this invention is to avoid the use of the eyes, andthereby avoid the expense of riveting or securing the loops and theWeakening of the busk incident thereto; and it consists in constructingone busk with a longitudinal slot in each end and the other buskprovided with studs in position corresponding to said slots, and so thatsaid slots will engage with said studs and serve to clasp the two busks,as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one busk, which is made from steel, as usual, butpreferably wider, and is provided with headed studs a, secured theretoin the usual manner, one near each end, and preferably one or moreintermediate studs, b. B is the second busk, which is also made fromsteel, preferably narrower than A, constructed with a longitudinal slot,d, in each end, the width of the slots corresponding to the diameter ofthe body of the studs a and less than the diameter of the head of thesaid studs. The

slots are best made with an enlargement at the extreme ends sufficientto permit the heads of the stud to pass through, as represented; but theslots may open through the end of the busk, as represented in Fig. 5.These busks areinserted in the corset in the usual manner; but theslotted ends of the busk B are exposed, as seen in Fig. 4.

In the body of the corset immediately in rear of the narrow busk B, atone or more points between the ends of the busk, an eyelet, e, isinserted, corresponding to and adaptedto engage the intermediate studs,b, on the busk A. One such intermediate stud and eyelet is sufficient.60 The busks are connected by first setting the slot in one end of thebusk B onto the stud at that end of busk A, as shown, and then bendingthe busk B so that the slot at theother end will pass onto the stud atthat end of the busk A, and the spring of the metal, when free, willthen force the two busks to interlock, and so as to prevent accidentalremoval. 7 The eyelet (I is set over the intermediate studs, 6, to takethe intermediate transverse strain. By this construction it will be seenthat the eyes which are usually applied to the busk B are omitted,thereby avoiding the operation of riveting or otherwise securing theloops, and the consequent weakening of the busk is avoided, 7 and thebusks are securely interlocked, so that accidental disengagement isimpossible.

I claim The herein-described corset-clasp, consisting of the steel B,constructed with a longitudinal slot at each end formed directly in thesteel itself, combined with the busk A, provided with studscorresponding to said slots and with which said slots may engage, andthe said busk provided with one or more intermediate studs, 8 5substantially as described.

' JOSEPH DAY.

'Witnesses:

FRED C. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

